Harry stoll and abram kasse



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H. STOLL 8v A.KASSE.

THREAD PROTECTOR.

N0.'550,029-. l Patented Nofv.,19, 1895. Fix-.1.1. ,f f 'M "FR-E W/'rNEs-sss.-

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HARRY STOLL AND ABRAM KASSE, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

THREAD-PRO'TCTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 550,029, dated November 19, 1895.

I Application lcd September 18, 1895.. Serial No. 562,870. (No model.)

To LLZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that we, HARRY STOLL and ABRAM KASSE, residents of the city, county,

and State of New York, have invented certain' new and useful Improvements in Thread-Protectors, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to thread-protectors, and has for its object to produce a device which will carry a thread in such a manner that the thread may be reeled from the spool, but will serve to prevent the spool from being carried away bodily.

A necessity for this invention exists, due to the fact that tailors and others are addicted to the practice of carrying away the spools of expensive thread belonging to their employers and selling the same. So in order to provide a means for preventing these pernicious practices, and at the same time to provide a device which will enable the thread to be readily reeled from the spool, we have devised the construction which forms the subject of our present invention.

Our invention consists in the construction hereinafter set forth and claimed.

We will describe our invention by referring to the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, which show a form of our invention.

In the drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of a construction embodying our invention. Fig. 2 is a broken-away plan thereof, the Wings of the table being shown in brokenaway detail. Fig. 3 is a side elevation ofthe device, the legs of the table being broken away and the dust-guard or spool-box removed. Fig. 4 is a detail of the thread-holder bar. Fig. 5 is a detail of the locking mechanism. Fig. 6 is a detail of the spool-carrying-bar pivot, and Fig. 7 is an end view of the dust-guard or spool-box.

In the drawings, A is a tailor7s table, from which rise standards B B', which have vertical slots b. Extending from the standard B to the standard B and resting in the slots of the standards is a spool-carrying bar C. This spool-carrying bar has an eye c at one end thereof, which eye embraces a pivot b', which crosses the slot b in the standard B. This eye and pivot constitute the means for pivoting the spool-carrying bar, which spool-earrying bar moves freely upon its pivot in a vertical plane. Carried by the standard B' is a lock D, whose bolt d extends across the slot bin the standard and serves to confine the free end of the spool-carrying bar in the standard. Surrounding the spool-carrying bar is a dust-guard or spoolboxE,resting upon shoulders b2 of the standards and provided with hinged Hap-covers e, and provided with slots e in the ends for the free passage of the spool-carrying bar C. At intervals along the edges of the flaps e of the cove-r are slots e2, which terminate in eyes c3 for the passage of the thread. F is the thread-holding bar,which extends from standard to standard below the spool-carryin g bar. This thread-holding bar is provided with thread-holding slots f.

VThe operation of our device will be apparent from the foregoing description. We will, however, here state the operation :v The spools are strung upon the spoolcarrying bar, which is tilted slightly for the purpose, the bolt of the lock being removed by operating the lock, and the free end of the spool-carrying bar being tilted out of the slot in the standardB When a sufficient number of spools have been strung upon the spool-carrying bar, the bar is dropped back in place and the lock operated to throw the bolt across the slot above the bar C. The ends of the thread are carried outside of the spool-box E and a thread threaded into each of the eyes c3 by passing the thread through the slot e2. These threads hang outside of the box and the ends may be readily grasped to draw thread out ofthe box, the eyes serving in the present instance as thread-holders. The threads may, however, be brought down and entered into the threadholding slots of the thread-holding bar F.

Besides serving the function of holding the threads, the thread spool-box serves also to guard the thread from dust, one or more of the sides being transparent in order that the thread in the interior may be seen', so that the tailor can pick out the thread of the desired color and size.

What we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of supports B B', a spool- Carrying bar C pvoted to the support B by of Jshe box, all substantially as described :md one end and entering a slot in the support B', for the purposes set forth. :L locking device for looking the end of the spoobemrryiug barin the support B', a slotted Closed box E supported by the supports B and J J B', and surrounding the spool-Carrying bm', I\Vt11esses:

the said boxbeing provided with a, cover which BERNARD A. SCHMIDT,

is afpertured to permit the threads to pass out n MAURICE BLOCK. 

